Happy St. Patrick's Day! While today is the official
holiday, there was plenty of celebrating over the weekend, from parades and
farmers markets, to running and boxing. Here's your St. Patrick's Day Weekend
Entertainment Roundup.

Easily the biggest event of the weekend, the Shamrock Run drew more
than 35,000 people to Waterfront Park downtown Sunday morning for their
annual race and St. Patrick's Day festival.

People also flocked to Kells Irish Pub on Friday night for
its amateur "Oregon vs. Ireland" boxing
match, set up in a tent in the parking lot. The event was a surreal
throwback to classic boxing match culture, with tuxedos,
ring girls and a thick haze of cigar smoke.

Music and dancing took center stage at the more
traditional celebration at the
Beaverton Farmer's Market, starring the Molly Malone dancers and flutist
Hank Araki.

Sunday was a big day for quadruple amputee Jim Tucker, who re-entered the yoga studio for
the first time thanks to "Yoga
for Amputees," a free weekly class offered to all area amputees.

David
Greenwald is on his way back from a whirlwind trip to the SXSW music
festival in Austin, and has
some harsh criticism for the 25-year-old event, which he says is broken and
in dire need of a makeover.

Last week's episode
of Grimm was strong, but it brought up a lot of questions. Kristi
Turnquist breaks them all down, imploring us to ponder: Is there a homicide case in Portland that doesn't
involve Wesen?

If you find yourself relaxing with a book on the weekends,
consider joining OregonLive's online
book club, just started by Jeff Baker. Nominate
a book this week, and come back next week to vote on what you want to read.